"Clear communication with students and their parents is one of the primary goals of every teacher. Start this year with just that by using a variety of tools to share your plans and expectations for the coming academic year."

"Google Forms are amazing tools, allowing you to do some really advanced tricks with forms as the front-end and spreadsheets at the heart. Once you get started you'll be amazed at just how much you can achieve with this basic premise. Today we'll look at how to create a self-grading quiz using Google Forms. From there, you'll no doubt find a lot more ways to use forms and spreadsheets"

Might be a good way to make a connection, and a good opportunity to talk about digital citizenship... and discuss academic conversation/vocabulary into conversation.

Might be a good way to make a connection, and a good opportunity to talk about digital citizenship... and discuss academic conversation/vocabulary into conversation.

I know several of you are using Pinterest, so these tools will be of interest.

Focus on 21st century skills rather than knowledge

Info about what's different with using a Chromebook vs other devices, and what teachers (and students) need to know to use them. Note: 9th-10th students will use Chromebooks as their 1-to-1 device; Title will get some carts at CCJH: and each elementary school will get 6 carts at each of their schools

"Technology is a tool. It's not a learning outcome."

great for introducing what a blog is (for students, parents, colleagues, ...)

Lots of global collaborations listed here by Miss W, who creates the Edublogs Student Blogging Challenge

Great for our iPad teachers

Great list of Google tricks for Google Apps, Google Ed, Internet search, calendar, gmail, Chrome web store apps and extensions, ...

"Lesson Objective Learn key vocabulary related to copyright and fair use" Common Core vocab lesson on Creative Commons as a vocab lesson

"Help your kids submit their idea and work to Quest to matter. This is a great way to showcase what your students are doing. It will also open up opportunities for mentoring. If you know a kid who is doing something cool to change the world - SUBMIT IT. The end date is June 7th. Why not have your class create a quest to matter. If you haven't had a chance to do a genius project or some creative teacherpreneurship with passion projects - USE THIS opportunity. My friend Angela Maiers had this idea and many have joined in (like me) to help create a website showcasing and promoting all the great work that students are doing as social entrepreneurs to change the world. There will be a winning project that is showcased and mentored. " Vicki Davis

note: only works on PC This is great for creating slides for presentation or for blog post with inspirational sayings or quotes or main ideas... as well as for jazzing up photos

"Students analyze and explore poetry through a class blog and podcasting  Questions to Consider How do the "guiding reflection questions" support students' thinking? What skills are students practicing as they create their podcast? How did the class blog contribute to collaboration among students? Scroll down on this page to see the worksheet with reflective questions that they used Common Core Standards ELA.RL.6.4, ELA.RL.6.7, ELA.SL.6.5"

Using blogs in classroom for literacy as well as digital fluency.